Rejoice! 'Binge-watch' is now in the Merriam-Webster dictionary

Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY , KHOU4:44 PM. CST February 07, 2017

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The dictionary defines our favorite weekend pastime as "to watch many or all episodes of (a TV series) in rapid succession." It even helpfully uses the word in a sentence: "Even those of us who have bundled TV and broadband-Internet subscriptions from telephone or cable companies increasingly use them to binge-watch Netflix shows like Orange Is the New Black on an iPad … rather than flip through 500 channels to find nothing on."

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